light, only despair and darkness. But after the Apostle has described the lostness of the Gentiles in Ephesians 2:12, he gives the glorious hope that is in the gospel when he says in verse 13, “… now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.” Jesus Christ is the only answer to the depravity of man. The answer is not in religion; the answer is not in a church; the answer is not in sacraments or ordinances; the answer to men’s lostness is in a Person. As we